Do Not Adjust Your Set - Episode 13
Do Not Adjust Your Set (series)
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24m
Directed by Daphne Shadwell • Drama • With Denise Coffey, Eric Idle, David Jason, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band • 1967 • 25 minutes
The last show in the Rediffusion series sees everybody larking about somewhat. The demob-happy Bonzos interrupt their pre-recorded backing track to make a row and trash the set something like a junior The Who, and some rather adult material surfaces – as we glimpse a Roman Orgy and ‘groovy’ Conservative politician delivering a party-political broadcast which surely had younger kids scratching their heads.
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